New slaves from Africa were imported in Southern plantations.
Answer:
to keep them as helpless as possible
Explanation:
Number of slaves in each plantation always outnumbered the number of owners.Therefore the plantation owners understood that slaves could always revolt anytime and endanger their life.To handle that owners would punish slaves to break their spirit and bury fear in them before they could even think about revolting
They were afraid of a powerful governmet, and they were also afraid that it would turn into a monarchy
